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A Course of Free-Hand, Model, and Object Drawing: Designed for Primary, Grammar, and High Schools
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Industrial Drawing in Public Schools: A Course of Three Lectures Addressed to the Principals and Teachers of the Primary, Grammar, and High Schools of the City of Boston
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One pamphlet entitled Industrial Drawing in Public Schools: A Course of Three Lectures Addressed to the Principals and Teachers of the Primary, Grammar, and High Schools of the City of Boston, by Walter Smith, published by L. Prang and Company, Boston, 1875. Also on the title page is printed "Published by Request." This book is 54 numbered pages in length, and is divided into 3 sections, one for each of the three school levels. Each section addresses issues relevant to the teaching of drawing and industrial drawing in the schools. A few white-on-black reproductions of drawing cards from the Smith system are included in the book. The insides of both covers, as well as the back cover, are blank.
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Teachers' Manual for Free-Hand Drawing in Primary Schools
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One book entitled Teachers' Manual for Free-Hand Drawing in Primary Schools, by Walter Smith, published by James R. Osgood & Company, Boston, 1873. Also on the title page: "Intended to accompany the American Drawing-Cards, by the same author." This book is 104 numbered pages in length, and is comprised of an Introduction and 5 chapters: "Chapter 1, Centre, Points, and Straight Lines; Chapter 2, Straight-Line Figures; Chapter 3, Simple Curves; Chapter 4, Compound Curves- the Ellipse and Oval; Chapter 5, Compound Curves- Reversed Curves- The Ogee- Abstract Curves." Each of the lessons refer to, and illustrate, the Smith drawing cards intended to accompany the book. Title is within a simple double-rule frame on the front cover. The insides of the covers, as well as the back cover, are blank. "Sarah F. Richmond, Dec. 1873" is written in ms., in ink, in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover. "dc, 5/84, 10-" is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.
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White's School Series of Industrial Drawing, Free Hand
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One drawing book entitled White's School Series of Industrial Drawing, Free Hand, by H.P. Smith, published by Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., New York and Chicago, copyright 1878. "Engravings by John Karst" appears on the lower right-hand corner of the front cover. This book consists of 16 pages with 15 lessons (lesson 15 is wanting). Each lesson is accompanied by blank space or partial-model for copying by the owner. Some of the items for copying include vases, plants and flowers, Egyptian and Greek ornaments and designs, and pattern designs. The front cover is illustrated with a decorative border and an image of a decorated vase. The inside back cover lists geometric terms and their definitions, as well as quotations from Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones. The outside back cover is a publisher's advertisement for "White's School Series of Industrial Drawing and Progressive Art Studies." This book is vertically oriented; the spine is along the long side of the book at the top, and is to be opened and used by lifting the cover up, instead of to the right, as usual. Some of the images have been copied in pencil by a previous owner. "Annie S. Todd" is written in ms. at the top of the front cover.
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Educational and Industrial Drawing: Primary Freehand Series
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One drawing book entitled Educational and Industrial Drawing: Primary Freehand Series, No. 1, by Langdon S. Thompson, published by D.C. Heath & Co., Boston, Chicago and New York, 1874. This book is comprised of 24 lessons (3 to a page) and 2 additional lessons, without textual instruction. The front cover is decoratively illustrated, with a vase bearing the author's name. The back cover is a publisher's advertisement for the Educational and Industrial System of Drawing, by Langdon S. Thompson, offered for sale by D.C. Heath & Co. On the inside of the front cover are explanations and directions for use of the series and this book, which are continued on the inside of the back cover. Wrapped around the pages of text (so that they appear to be the first and last pages) are three horizontal half sheets in three primary colors: yellow, red, and blue. Each of the lessons allows space for copying and practicing; only the first three lessons have been filled in.
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